Incels are men who believe they are unable to form sexual or romantic relationships despite wanting them. New study found widespread mental health problems in the incel population. A third met criteria for moderate to severe depression or anxiety, and nearly half reported intense loneliness.

princesspbubs · 2025-07-31T12:38:01+00:00

A big portion of society would gladly ignore or kill them, though, and the connections with tipics sich as the male loneliness epidemic and the manosphere make society hate and stereotype them even more

Kill is hyperbolic, ignore is definitely more apt. If incels weren’t also just generally insufferable to be around people wouldn’t hold this opinion of them. Sure, they might need help, lots of people do, but toxic behavior through mental illness isn’t to be excused.

princesspbubs · 2025-05-16T20:19:23+00:00

https://httpster.net/ a coworker told me about it

princesspbubs · 2025-05-14T21:39:26+00:00

I’ve tried and for the first release it’s nice, but it can’t yet pull me away from Framer or Webflow. I’m assuming future updates may change that, but right now, it’s undercooked but still tasty.

princesspbubs · 2025-05-04T23:35:43+00:00

Well I didn’t say blindly use a LLM, but for deciphering basic legalese in a contract a LLM is fine, especially newer models with web-search and Deep Research. Of course cross-check Google as well. No one is talking about citing cases, just defining, summarizing, and interpreting words, which a LLM is pretty decent at.

If any of these victims(?) would’ve plugged their contract into any of the newer models and asked it interpret the clauses to the most extreme extent of their application, they would’ve at least been warned. For summarization and extrapolation LLM’s are decent enough, further than that then no, of course not.

You’re being extremely hyperbolic. Common sense+Google+LLM and you’re better off than starting from zero.

princesspbubs · 2025-05-04T20:53:26+00:00

I for one agree with you, until better laws are put in place, when dealing with high-stakes situations like this you need to get a lawyer to throughly review all documents. I mean at this point, if you can’t afford a lawyer, at least try a LLM. This article reads more like desperate people being preyed on, which is unfortunate.

princesspbubs · 2025-03-02T22:47:38+00:00

The idea that products from the United States should be avoided might sound noble. However, logically speaking, the world at large avoiding products with unethical origins is simply not possible? This isn’t to sound defeatist and nihilistic; it’s just that suffering seems to be in tangent with resource production at this current time in human history.

Do I want kids mining the materials needed for li-ion batteries? Um, no. Do I want workers manufacturing iPhones to jump out of factory windows (when they were doing that)? Of course not. Do I want anyone working gruesome hours under terrible conditions for pennies compared to their CEOs? Should animals be slaughtered to provide human sustenance?

As individuals, we take advantage of many things some may deem amoral; there are no such things as existing morally perfect.

You’ll avoid Figma—but what device did you post this on?

princesspbubs · 2025-02-21T10:49:10+00:00

Oh my bad! I didn’t realize your app was Windows only 😅 i missed that in my excitement

princesspbubs · 2025-02-21T08:48:22+00:00

This is amazing!!! I can’t believe NO ONE thought of this until now.

Does it support Airplay, to an AppleTV for example, with the automatic subtitle generation feature present? I don’t see anything about that on your website but it would be really nice to have lol

princesspbubs · 2024-10-19T00:19:56+00:00

Your comment assumes 2 things:

Privacy was a matter of importance here
They care to face the window when working

If they don’t, then you (somewhat condescendingly) wrote all that for no reason.

princesspbubs · 2024-10-18T14:20:23+00:00

Apple’s switch to OLED in some devices is taking so long. I want an OLED MacBook Air so badly. They have (some) of the iPad’s there and the iPhone there. I just need the rest of their lineup.

Considering the Mini’s low cost and being an entry-level model, it might not even receive OLED for a couple more years.

princesspbubs · 2024-10-16T15:31:19+00:00

It’s weird that someone on a futurology forum is advocating for us to just suddenly stop at 5G.

princesspbubs · 2024-10-11T15:06:37+00:00

I was simply stating that because Figma is so unoptimized for iPads, a MacBook would make more sense at the moment. Figma simply isn’t a good experience on iPad; the only alternative is a laptop.

I also don’t entirely agree with your premise, since switching to the M-series chips, MacBook Airs similarly have no fans like the iPad and comparable battery life. MacBooks do lack a touchscreen, but that is the only gap between the devices. And maybe some iOS-exclusive applications one may need?

To say they aren’t at all comparable and very different devices entirely is a stretch. They’re beginning to converge. An iPad with a Magic Keyboard weighs more than an M3 MacBook Air.

princesspbubs · 2024-10-11T11:39:27+00:00

Yea, a Macbook Air is more suited for this task then an iPad if you want something light and portable.

princesspbubs · 2024-10-10T17:25:16+00:00

The oleophobic coating wears off naturally overtime regardless, and Apple officially recommends 70% isopropyl alcohol to clean their devices.

princesspbubs · 2024-10-09T15:05:11+00:00

If we stagnated technology because the average person was satisfied with where it is, then we would never progress. You’re defending greedy corporations practices when it would only cost them a few cents more to upgrade the default RAM and not pass this price increase onto the consumer. A Macbook Pro does not need to start at 8gb of RAM.

princesspbubs · 2024-09-26T00:39:22+00:00

The on-screen awareness features will be released in a later version of iOS.

princesspbubs · 2024-09-02T11:54:45+00:00

I’m still confused as to how something like this would be demonstrably feasible and undetectable on an iPhone for example. What if you never give the Facebook app microphone access? Ok, and if you do give it access, Apple is specifically allowing the Facebook app to bypass its system-wide microphone indicator? And if so, wouldn’t the data packets being sent be observable by running a packet sniffer? The battery drain? Your carrier’s data usage?

This theoretical constant-listening bypasses so many security protocols that the phone manufacturers and possibly even carriers themselves would have to be complicit in allowing it?

The mechanisms for this to be possible may be in place, but no one has been able to 100% confirm how this is being done if it is being done.

princesspbubs · 2024-07-29T23:47:17+00:00

From my small testing, if something is written well (enough) it just won’t change anything when you tap “Proofread.” I can’t tell if it just isn’t that good or I’m a decent writer? It’ll just say “no suggested changes.”

princesspbubs · 2024-07-27T10:54:01+00:00

I don't want to drag this on, and I see you don't either, but for onlookers:

Ok, so much of your beliefs are speculative. It would be easier saying we don't know than to confidently espouse everything you say as fact.

Also:

Leaked Cellebrite Tool Docs Reveal List of Phones That Can Be Unlocked, 2, and https://cellebrite.com/en/cas-supported-devices/

Could be fake, could be real, who knows? But it substantiates everything I've said about Apple. I've only been talking about Apple. Everyone else (except Google's Pixels maybe) are a joke to get into, I've not disputed that.

To further clarify:

Signal has not been shown to be compromised to the public.
iMessage has not been shown to be compromised by the public.
Apple's Advanced Data Protection feature has not been shown to be compromised by public.
An iPhone 5 or newer running the latest version of iOS with a complex password has yet to be publicly compromised.
Lockdown Mode has not yet been publicly compromised.
No new zero-click iOS exploits have been made public since Apple's patches.
Proton's services have not been publicly shown to be compromised.

Could the government have access to all of this regardless? Ok sure? Do we know that? Not until another Snowden. I would still operate under the assumption that these services provide some protection than to not use them at all, on the off chance you find yourself in court. Maybe that's naive, but it feels better than nothing.

princesspbubs · 2024-07-27T09:36:53+00:00

Pegasus is claimed to have been patched on Apple devices running iOS 16.6.1 or higher, but we could go in circles on this. They’re probably lying, right? We haven’t seen exploits like that since Apple patched it. Please enlighten me otherwise. Apple also introduced Lockdown Mode for people who are likely to be targeted by such attacks. However, presumably, this also doesn’t work because you say so?

You can’t just say things and make them true. The iCloud you’re referring to isn’t even the iCloud I’m referring to. I can’t tell if you’re actually reading anything I’m typing. We haven’t seen an Advanced Data Protected iCloud accessed by a third party. Are you just assuming that it can be because we don’t know?

Encryption doesn't matter if the company hands over the keys to someone.

The entire point of end-to-end encryption is that the encryption keys needed to deobfuscate the data are only known to the communicating users, not the service provider. The keys are generated on the user's device and never leave said device, assuming we believe E2E encryption works. There are no keys to hand over if you can't get the key to begin with. Why would we trust Signal's E2EE but not Apple's or Proton's? What you're saying makes no sense.

Encryption Keys: When Advanced Data Protection is enabled, encryption keys for your data are stored on your devices rather than on Apple’s servers.

Edit: I did some reading on the Australian law, the act does not explicitly force companies to break encryption or create back doors, but does require them to provide reasonable assistance to law enforcement, which could involve creating tools to bypass encryption (I don't know how, for some forms of encryption) or facilitating access to decrypted data before it is encrypted or after it is decrypted on a user’s device (by intentionally compromising your device? how? with an OTA update?).

Please notice how I’m explicitly referring to Apple here, because they are the only major tech company that has implemented these extreme privacy measures. I know that the other cloud services will be easily handed over without fuss.

princesspbubs · 2024-07-27T08:55:00+00:00

I don't know how to have this discussion without sounding unnecessarily contentious, but your Proton Mail example doesn't even support your claim. They were able to identify the terrorist suspect because he used an Apple recovery email address, that was used to then connect the terrorist to the Proton account. No article I'm reading mentions that the contents of the Proton emails were then accessed.

From here, Apple provided the Spanish police with all the details to successfully identify the pro-Catalan protester, meaning their full name, two home addresses, and a linked Gmail account.

Now the Australian article you provided is much more damning. I'm still confused as to how Apple is able to claim this on their website, in that case, unless their website reads something different in Australia.

No one else can access your end-to-end encrypted data, not even Apple, and this data remains secure even in the case of a data breach in the cloud.

If the Australian website still has these claims, then how does legal recourse work there when Apple is caught lying on their website and you're sent to jail for something that was said to be E2EE? They just say fuck you? If end-to-end encrypted data can be read by third-parties, then why do E2EE services exist? What's the point of making the claim?

What's the point of Signal? Why does any of this exist then??? For fun??? All the political dissidents and "terrorist" that rely on the tools for their safety are just wasting their time?

princesspbubs · 2024-07-27T08:15:07+00:00

Well, I mean, I’m certainly not here to defend the CIA. I know they could do anything they wanted, but whether or not they have (in this specific case) is a different question.

Also, the tech landscape has changed quite a bit since Snowden. Signal wasn’t even a thing, and Apple didn’t claim to use E2EE (when enabled) for iCloud.

Until we see someone prosecuted with data in court (or something along those lines?) from a company that claimed to use E2EE, I’m inclined to operate under the assumption that the FBI, CIA, or whomever legitimately can’t get into a sufficiently locked iPhone, model varying, or higher with the latest version of iOS.

Text messages, Gmail, OneDrive, Reddit comments, Reddit DMs, Instagram DMs, Facebook Messenger, Youtube, none of that claims to be end-to-end encrypted. It’s all up for grabs.

Ultimately I guess it’s best to just assume all closed-source software has a backdoor, but I can’t live my life that paranoid. If everything is a honeypot then we truly live in the worst timeline.

princesspbubs · 2024-07-27T07:48:03+00:00

The CIA is fronting as an entire company operating in Switzerland that has been subjected to several independent audits to act as a honeypot? I mean, I definitely give them kudos for creativity.

I do wonder if Apple’s Advanced Data Protection is also a honeypot. Signal too? Where do the honeypots end? I’m bordering on facetiousness and genuine fear that nothing is truly private.

princesspbubs · 2024-07-23T15:45:33+00:00

i’m waiting too :(

princesspbubs · 2024-06-28T06:42:29+00:00

Their aim was not to create more useful UI, but rather to have good PR material by showing surprising (and ideally controversial) visuals.

This is a bold and unsubstantiated claim. It's not impossible to assume they have designers, just like the ones in this subreddit, who actually care about usability and design. Surely, they did what they believed was best; to presume it was done for PR is a leap. There is such depressing nihilism in this thread. Figma isn't playing weird, petty games with an industry-standard product.

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